Guest friederike Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 maybe you could add some links for themes as well: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...rls4-jellyfish/ http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...ew-gingerbread/ http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...tc-sense-theme/ http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...2/iphone-theme/ http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...te-desire-hd-z/ (there are probably more, just a few I bookmarked) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rayraven Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Nice work Steven, +1 for a sticky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ash_P Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Nice work that man. In WIPE / FACTORY RESET is it worth pointing out when these two should be wiped? You bring up USERDAT partition and the CACHE partition in there aswell - is it worth expanding on these (in the partition section maybe?). Or maybe have a new dalvik cache section? (USERDAT is pretty straight forward but CACHE isn't IMHO) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevenHarperUK Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Nice work that man. In WIPE / FACTORY RESET is it worth pointing out when these two should be wiped? You bring up USERDAT partition and the CACHE partition in there aswell - is it worth expanding on these (in the partition section maybe?). Or maybe have a new dalvik cache section? (USERDAT is pretty straight forward but CACHE isn't IMHO) ADDED/UPDATED BOOT CLOCKWORK NANDROID RECOVERY SYSTEM TPT USERDATA WIPE / FACTORY RESET I have a question - I assume that the Cache partition is just a scrap place for programs to store data - is this right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Simon O Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 maybe you could add some links for themes as well: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...rls4-jellyfish/ http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...ew-gingerbread/ http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...tc-sense-theme/ http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...2/iphone-theme/ http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...te-desire-hd-z/ (there are probably more, just a few I bookmarked) They would be out of place in this as it's a glossary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevenHarperUK Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 They would be out of place in this as it's a glossary. Yeh I meant to reply with something similar - Flibblesan while your here is my definition of CACHE good enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arr Too Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 I have a question - I assume that the Cache partition is just a scrap place for programs to store data - is this right? Yeah, it's used by the Browser and temporary storage for downloads and stuff. I don't think anything vital should ever be found there, except for maybe logs in case of problems (ClockworkMod?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevenHarperUK Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Yeah, it's used by the Browser and temporary storage for downloads and stuff. I don't think anything vital should ever be found there, except for maybe logs in case of problems (ClockworkMod?). Ta - updated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Simon O Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Yeh I meant to reply with something similar - Flibblesan while your here is my definition of CACHE good enough? Yep, it's good enough :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest steff.jay Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 perhaps you also could create a thread (or add it to the other one) with all known fixes and workarounds, like volume-fix, vm-heap increase, etc? :unsure: anyway... thank you so much for your very well done overviews so far!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uptime Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 (edited) Any suggestions or links that anyone can add? Maybe you could explain the "Galvik cache". EDIT: I assume this is eplained under "cache", so nevermind. PS: Great work so far. Edited January 5, 2011 by uptime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arr Too Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 Maybe you could explain the "Galvik cache". The Dalvik cache is basically the main code (classes.dex) extracted from the APK zip file of each app so it runs more quickly/easily. It's located at /data/dalvik-cache. Clearing this should be safe since the system will recreate it on demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevenHarperUK Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 The Dalvik cache is basically the main code (classes.dex) extracted from the APK zip file of each app so it runs more quickly/easily. It's located at /data/dalvik-cache. Clearing this should be safe since the system will recreate it on demand. Thanks - Added. Mores suggestions / corrections welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest admanirv Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 (edited) I see JIT mentioned quite a bit, maybe that's because I'm a software engineer and it stick out, but its maybe worthwhile mentioning it along with Dalvik. Maybe not worthwhile going into detail about a compiler though :unsure:. I should probably help the community more since i wrote programs in j2me, this was 6 years ago though B) Edited January 5, 2011 by admanirv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest majnu Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 thanks for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PeaNut_HU Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 Hmmm, why isn't this thread still not stickied... ? B) :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boonrider Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Thanks very much for this. Another term that I am confused about is RIL (I see it mentioned a lot), but that may just be me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arr Too Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Another term that I am confused about is RIL (I see it mentioned a lot), but that may just be me. RIL is Radio Interface Layer and is the bit where the generic OS (like Android) meets the lower-level software for the specific telephone parts of the phone (and the vendor-specific, low-level software is referred to as the Baseband [Layer]). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest whoop_whoop Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Can you add what a Kernel is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevenHarperUK Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Can you add what a Kernel is? I have added some more items - including this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vareBlade Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 (edited) What im sure most people wont get in your glossary is VM. You 'keep' talking about it while not explaining what VM means. The VM is the JAVA VM that the android system is running in. I mean you are saying "VM is the Java VM" ya alright but what is Java VM then? Maybe changing it in Java Virtual Machine would be helpful. And those interested can then google what java virtual machine is And maybe in the kernel you could add some info from this image: http://developer.android.com/images/system-architecture.jpg Edited January 9, 2011 by vareBlade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ralph Martin Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 Stephen: The main partitions are : BOOT, RECOVERY, SYSTEM, USERDATA, CACHE How about adding a couple of sentences saying what is stored on each partition and how it is used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ralph Martin Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 And another term that could be defined, with a stab at doing so: AOSP Android Open Source Project. Some times used on the forum to refer to a generic version of the Android system, before phone manufacturers / carriers / others have made modifications and provided alternative / extra software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevenHarperUK Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 And another term that could be defined, with a stab at doing so: AOSP Android Open Source Project. Some times used on the forum to refer to a generic version of the Android system, before phone manufacturers / carriers / others have made modifications and provided alternative / extra software. Ta - that's a good one Also added A2SD and added more info on APP2SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevenHarperUK Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Added Recovery Manager and Firmware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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